When Doug Olson, the president and general manager of Meredith magazines, reaches for an analogy to describe the launch of Magnolia Journal, his mind goes immediately to O, The Oprah Magazine. “It’s the first time in our history at Meredith that the largest retailers in the business called back on day one, and said, ‘We’re already sold out. Can you send more copies?’” The quarterly lifestyle magazine, based on a partnership with Joanna and Chip Gaines, the stars of HGTV’s “Fixer Upper,” debuted in the fall of 2016 as a newsstand-only title with an initial run of 400,000 copies. Within a year, the publication claimed a rate base of 1.2 million through full-price, direct-to-consumer subscriptions and newsstand placements with an average sell-through rate of 60 percent, Meredith says, more than twice the industry average. Those numbers can’t put Magnolia Journal in quite the same league as O, a Hearst title whose rise was so meteoric it was outselling the top women’s magazines in the country with a circulation of over two million within months of its launch in 2000. But the intervening 18 years have seen audiences move en masse from print and live TV to digital platforms, making the magazine’s apparent success all the more remarkable. Even more striking is the genesis of its founding partnership. O, multiple sources say, would never have come to fruition had editor Helen Levine not persuaded the TV personality she needed an outlet with the quasi-religious power of the... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#real people
#airbnb hosts
#online presence
#gwyneth paltrow
'Guernica,' 'Mizna,' 'Orion,' the 'Paris Review,' the 'Los Angeles Review of Books,' 'n+1,' and 'Oxford American' are the winners of this year's Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#paris review
#oxford american
#literary magazine
The August assessment of Circana BookScan's Kristen McLean shows romance leading a drop in United States print book sales. The post Circana BookScan: US Print Book Market ‘Slowing a Bit’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-09-11 22:40:03 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#circana bookscan
#print book
Unit sales of print books fell 7.9% last week from the comparable week in 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Sales were down in all categories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#circana bookscan
With the adult fiction and nonfiction categories posting declines of 9% and 6%, respectively, unit sales of print books fell 6.1% last week from the comparable week in 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#adult fiction
#circana bookscan
#print book
He was promoting a new trade journal, Tape Recording, when he lent a video recorder to Andy Warhol, who used it to make a classic work with Edie Sedgwick. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-08-30 19:10:43 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#andy warhol
#classic work
#edie sedgwick
#magazine publisher
A library card is one of the most useful things you can have in your wallet. Libby offers free access to ebooks and audiobooks if you have a supported library card (some 90 percent of public libraries in North America now use OverDrive's app). Not only that, you can also use Libby to read a host... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2023-08-28 17:00:30 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#library card
#rolling stone
#bon appetit
#streamlined access
#start reading
#single tap
#local library
#public libraries
#ebooks
The release of the second season of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' on Amazon Prime gave a small boost to the Jenny Han novels that the series is based on last week, but it wasn't enough to stop a 7.1% drop in sales. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#turned pretty
#1% drop
#print book
Unit sales of print books struggled again last week, falling 7.6% compared to the week ended August 13, 2022. The decline in adult fiction continued, with sales off 9.6%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#6% compared
In another week in which sales in all categories fell, unit sales or print books declined 8.3% at outlets that report to BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#categories fell
Despite overall flat sales this July, Circana reports that the US book market also saw some frontlist gains and new voices on the bestseller list. The post Circana on July’s US Print Book Market: A Slight Frontlist Gain appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-08-08 19:27:46 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#flat sales
#bestseller list
#book market
#print book
The string of weeks in which unit sales of print books were down in all major categories reached three last week, leading to a 5.4% sales decline from the comparable week in 2022. Sales of adult fiction fell 7.2%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#print books
#print book
From the Gutenberg press to the word processor, a detailed trawl through the history of print offers lessons for the digital ageThe Gutenberg Parenthesis is a term coined by Danish scholar Lars Ole Sauerberg, who proposed that the history of literary culture as we had hitherto known it – the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-08-02 11:00:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#digital technology
#intellectual property
#oral tradition
#important role
#printing press
Unit sales of print books fell 6.1% last week. All six major categories had declines. In the year's strongest segment, adult fiction, sales couldn't keep pace with last year, when 'Where the Crawdads Sing' sold more than 123,000 copies. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#print books
#major categories
#adult fiction
#crawdads sing
“A good home for good projects” is how sales and marketing director Samuel Chung sums up Chang Jiang Printing Media, which he established a decade ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#decade ago
The quest for greater automation and greener solutions is propelling the Hong Kong and China print manufacturers forward even as they face down rising costs, slow incoming new orders amid excess client-side inventories, and macroeconomic factors beyond their control. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hong kong
#greater automation
#rising costs
Extending their service and supply solutions while intensifying their quest for greater automation and greener technologies is the game plan for Hong Kong and China print players. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hong kong
#greater automation
With declines in every segment, unit sales of print books fell 3.8% last week compared to the week ended July 16, 2023. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#week compared
We talk to Samuel Ross about the new Beats Studio Pro. It’s the first update to the Beats Studio line since 2017. I’m holding the box for Beats Studio3 headphones. They were released in 2017—in other words, a lifetime ago. The box is nothing short of peak packaging, with a hefty fiberboard... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2023-07-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hardcover book
A flat sales performance by the adult category and smaller declines in the children’s segments than has been typical in recent weeks resulted in a smaller decline in total unit sales of print books last week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#adult category
#print books
Sales from a new edition of a Colleen Hoover novel were not enough to overcome huge sales racked up by Jenny Han's young adult titles last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#colleen hoover
#jenny han